Day 168: Less is … the same

One of the keys to Project Bulk is frequency and duration of workouts. Author Tim Ferriss refers to this as Minimum Effective Dose in “The 4-Hour Body” [Amazon |iTunes aff. links].

I lift weights about an hour and 13 minutes a week total, split over Mondays, Wednesday and Fridays. For the month, that’s about 5 hours.

I could exercise more, but the challenge is to build muscles with as little effort and time as possible. I could exercise less, which is what I did in October and November using different exercises. Those months resulted in higher body fat compared to muscle gain than I preferred.